Neighborhood Council Board Members, both elected and appointed, are required to do three things in order to vote on issues that come before the council: take Ethics Training, take Funding Training, and sign a Code-of-Conduct Certificate. EmpowerLA tracks the compliance on these three items and posts the results of the Ethics and Funding Training on [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. It has been a busy week as we’ve been working to resolve our vacant positions issue so we would finish our FY 2015-2016 budget submission due today. I really want to thank Deputy Mayor Rick Cole, CAO Miguel Santana, Personnel Department Assistant General Manager Phyllis Lynes and their awesome [...]
Are you interested in trying something different? The RACO Program welcomes volunteers to become Reserve Animal Control Officers serving in the same capacity as our Animal Control Officers. The program requires a commitment of 16 hours of volunteer service each month at any one of our six Animal Care Centers for 3 months prior to [...]
Mayor Garcetti Asia Trip Update Editors: Photos are available at lamayor.org/photos BEIJING, CHINA -- Mayor Garcetti was in Beijing, China, the fourth stop in his Asia trade mission. In Beijing, Mayor Garcetti met with the U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus. He also led a discussion on urbanization and sustainability at Peking University, in partnership [...]
The divide between the different neighborhoods of Los Angeles can feel like one between cities, and in some cases—like West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, and Culver City—it literally is. But residents of L.A. really do place stock in the neighborhood they live in, whether it be on the Westside or Eastside, downtown or nestled [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well. We said a very bittersweet goodbye for now this week to our Neighborhood Empowerment Advocate, Lisette Covarrubias, who is leaving us today to go work with Metro. Lisette has been with the Department for 9 years, and her great work with Neighborhood Councils was evidenced when board members [...]
Mayor Eric Garcetti today highlighted the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s energy efficiency goal of 15% by year 2020—the highest and most ambitious energy efficiency goal by a major municipal utility in the United States. The new goal, adopted by Garcetti’s appointees to the Board of Water and Power in August 2014, exceeds [...]
LOS ANGELES and BISHOP, CA – Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, LA City Attorney Mike Feuer, DWP Commission President Mel Levine and Owens Valley air pollution control representatives Ron Hames, Linda Arcularius and Matt Kingsley announced today that the City of Los Angeles and the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District (Great Basin) have [...]
I hope this newsletter finds you well and that you are having a Happy Halloween! I’m thrilled to share that we received a certification application from South LA for the 96th Neighborhood Council in the City - Zapata King Neighborhood Council. I really want to thank their forming committee, and our NEAs Taneda Larios and [...]
Will you join me in fighting the drought? The history of Los Angeles is a history of water. From our city's founding on the banks of the LA River to the engineering miracle of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, our relationship with water has been inseparable from our growth and success as a city. With our [...]
